Don’t Freeze Your Customers!

Choice is a building block of society. In a brilliant talk, Professor Renata Salecl discusses the dark side of choice. The three problems Professor Salecl has with choice are that it provokes anxiety, increases indecision, and involves loss. Much of her insight about...

Is your firm a used car salesman?

In the Nielsen Company’s article, “When it Comes to Spending Decisions, Women are In Control,” we learn an age-old truth: women and men are different. In fact, when it comes to effective relationship-building strategies men and women employ are very different. Barbra...

Storyboards Aren’t Just For Hollywood

Attendees of our recent webinar, “See What Your Customers See: Mapping Your Real Customer Experience,” hosted by me and my colleague Kalina Janevska, were presented with creative new ways to effectively map their customer experiences. Given the level of interest and...

What causes a flop?

Imagine your company just developed an amazing new product. You invested in loads of market research and tweaked it to perfection only to watch it flop upon launch. It has happened, and it can happen to you. As Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath points...